Hey guys this is kitsunegirl05 starting up my second story. I'm sorry I couldn't help it the urge was just to great. And I'm sorry I took so long my computer threw a fit and wouldn't work for me anymore.
-Readers sigh and shake their heads-
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Sorry
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This story will be updated slowly because I don't have the chapters pre made like Learning How to Love Again. That and the chapter in this story are most likely going to be longer. So I'm going to stop babbling and get on with the story.
Happy Reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any game systems or cereal in this.
I only own Umeko, Nozomi, Mai, Jomei, Master Kyo, and Mrs. and Mr. Mitsu.
Chapter 1: Hopeless little girl
My name is Nozomi Mitsu. I am 15 and live with my parent, my sister and my brother. My name, when translated means reflecting hope. I always get bullied about my name…people have the tendency to call me hopeless. It's funny to them. I guess they like to see me cry. It's all because of my name and my weird birthmark that I'm in this mess. Well you don't have any idea what I'm talking about so lets go back to the beginning. It all started two days ago…
Nozomi Mitsu was siting at the dining room table reading a Naruto magna while eating cereal. Her brother Jomei and sister Mai were also sitting at the table. Jomei was reading a game manual and spilling his frosted flakes everywhere. He was too absorbed in his book to notice that he was missing the bowl and pouring the cereal onto the table. Mai was reading (more like looking at the pictures) in a teen magazine.
Mai was 16 and was nothing like her younger sister. She liked shopping, clothes, boys, make up, earrings, boys, making out, going on dates…did I mention boys?
Nozomi being the middle child was often ignored by her parents. She wasn't allowed to do half the things Mai could. Jomei being the youngest usually got the most attention. He was only 9.
"I still don't know why you waste your money on those books." Mai said in between bites of cereal.
"Your hopeless, you and your books. All you do all day is read and watch anime."
"At least I know how to read." Nozomi mumbled under her breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing Mai."
The last thing she needed was for Mai to go and tell her dad and her step-mom on her. She would be grounded for life. Then she wouldn't be able to train.
"Anyway." Mai continued.
"You should be doing something more productive."
She picked up her bowl and walked into the kitchen to put in the sink. She came back too the table to finish looking through her magazine.
"Like going to the mall. That's very productive." She said while leafing through the pages.
"Or playing video games." Jomei said with a mouth full of cereal.
"Jomei don't talk with your mouth full." Nozomi instructed calmly while ignoring her sister. She never took her eyes off the magna that she was reading.
Mai sweatdroped.
"You weren't listening to anything I said…were you?"
"Nope."
"And your not planing on listening…are you?"
"Not a chance."
Mai sighed
"Why do I bother."
"To tell you the truth, I have no clue what so ever." Nozomi answered knowing that it was a rhetorical question. She liked to press her sister's buttons.
Mai picked up here magazine and walked out of the dining room mumbling about hopeless little sisters.
Nozomi sighed and placed the magna on the table as she watched her sister's retreating form. She really wished everyone would stop calling her hopeless it made her feel bad about her self. She wasn't going to commit suicide or anything but all that talk could really discourage someone.
'They don't realize how bad it feels. Give them a chance maybe one day they'll understand.' Her mind whispered.
She often wondered where this little voice came from. Most of the time it was right so she decided to give it the benefit of the doubt.
She picked up her magna and walked up the stairs to her room. She clutched the book she was holding to her chest.
Unknown to her, her birthmark started glowing a soft red color.
She went to her closet and pulled out a black T-shirt with a red design, blue jeans and black and red sneakers. She put on the outfit and pulled on a red belt. Her two favorite colors were black and red.
(A/N- what gave it away?)
She pulled her waist length red brown hair into a high ponytail. She went to go look in the mirror. Crimson eyes stared back at her.
She sighed and walked out of her room. Her eyes scared people. They were too intense people would say. She inherited the trait from her mother. She knew her father hated her because Nozomi reminded him of her deiced mother. Her step mom didn't like her because of the fact that Nozomi reminded her father of a person in the past that her step-mom rather him forget about.
'They think I'm a monster.'
She went into the living room where Jomei was playing with his PSP.
"Jomei when dad gets back from work tell them I went to Master Kyo's ok"
"Sure sissy." Jomei answered not really paying attention.
"Thanks."
Nozomi smiled at her brother. The only one in her family who never called her hopeless. The only one who she truly loved in her so called family.
She ruffled his brown hair affectionately and kissed him on the cheek.
"Ewww." He looked up at her with narrowed brown eyes and protested.
"Now I have girl cooties." He complained
Nozomi laughed.
"Bye Jomei."
Nozomi ran back up the stairs and grabbed he endless backpack. People called it endless because it always had what they were looking for yet it was no bigger than a normal backpack.
She opened it and put out her vanilla smelling body spray and some extra pairs of clothes. She adored vanilla so anything she owned that smelled of it went into her bag. She shouldered the bag and walked out of her room.
"Tell father I'm going to stay over for the night Jomei."
She yelled to her brother as she walked down stairs and out the door.
"I promised Umeko I would stay, ok."
Master Kyo adopted Umeko when she was younger. Umeko was also 15 and Nozomi's best friend. Umeko was the calmest person Nozomi ever met. She only seen Umeko lash out at somebody once and that was when a boy decided to rub her behind. That boy now eats out of a straw.
She heard an 'Okay bye sissy' from the living room.
"Cya."
She closed the door behind her and jogged all the way to Master Kyo's dojo.
She knocked on the door and bowed when Master Kyo answered.
"Hello Master Kyo is Umeko here?" Nozomi asked kindly
"Yes, of course." Kyo said warmly when he saw his star pupil.
"Are you here to train?"
Nozomi and Umeko both practiced hand to hand combat. Kyo even showed them how to throw daggers and use a bow and arrows. They were both very fast and very powerful. Their senses are much sharper than normal humans should be.
Nozomi shook her head.
"Not today. Today I promised Umeko I would spend time with her."
"Very well, UMEKO!"
Kyo yelled her name loudly so Umeko would be able to hear him.
Soon you could hear the patter for feet coming down the hallway and Umeko stuck her head into the room.
"Yes uncle? Oh Nozomi you're here." She said as walked the rest of the way into the room.
"Come on lets go to my room."
Nozomi followed Umeko to her room after bowing to Kyo.
Umeko had waist length midnight blue hair and milky lilac eyes. Nozomi said she looked a lot like Hint from Naruto. When Nozomi would say this Umeko would laugh and say 'what ever you say'.
Umeko was the only person who understood Nozomi's obsession with anime.
"So what book did you bring this time?" Umeko asked curiously as they sat on her bed.
"Tonight is going to be all about Naruto." Nozomi announced happily. She reached into her bag and pulled out books 1-20 of the magna and movies 1 and 2.
She looked around at everything she brought.
"This should hold us up for a while."
They both read in silence for about two hours before Nozomi sighed and put the book she was reading down.
"Umeko."
"Hmm?"
"Are you bored"
"A little."
"I have a better idea than this."
"What?"
"Lets go train with Master Kyo."
"Alright Nozomi, lets go."
Both girls ran out the room to find their teacher. Kyo was delighted to hear that the girls wanted to train instead of keep themselves cooped up in Umeko's room.
They practiced shooting the targets in distant trees to get better at there aiming. Kyo made them hit small targets with their daggers to sharpen their eyesight.
He had them train until the sun started to set
Both girls fell on the ground exhausted.
Nozomi was still panting
"Wow…that was really…hard."
Umeko giggled
"Yeah it was something."
Nozomi looked over at Umeko.
'Wow she hardly even looks out of breath.' She observed. ' Well she does have to live with this guy. I guess she has a harder time than I do,
And is used to this.'
"Why don't we end it for today girls" Master Kyo said while starring at the full moon above.
Nozomi and Umeko also looked up at the moon.
"It's beautiful…" they both said. They looked at each other and giggled.
"Jinx you owe me a soda." Umeko said quickly.
"Dang, fine...only if you tell me a story."
"A story? What kind of story?"
"I don't know. Tell me about a magical land." Nozomi said while shrugging her shoulders.
"Hmm alright. Their once was a girl-"
"What was the girls name?" Nozomi said while staring up at the sky. She was watching the setting sun. The color melted together making a beautiful painting.
Umeko glanced at her friend before returning her attention back to the sky.
"Hope."
"That's a nice name."
Umeko smiled.
"Their once was a girl named hope who was sucked into a book.""
"What kind of book?"
"A fantasy book. Is that all of your questions?"
Nozomi giggled. "Yeah, sorry."
"Any way, Their once was a girl who got sucked into a book. It was a fantasy book. She didn't know the name of the world she was in so she deiced to call it Ink World, After the name of the book Ink Spell. The world was filled with fairies, sprites, glass gnomes and other magical creatures. But there was one man who wanted to destroy the magic of the world…"
Umeko continued the tale of magical creatures. At the very end the girl named Hope defeated the magical being and got to return to her own world.
You might think that this would be a happy occurrence but no one would have thought that Hope wanted to stay in the magical world. No one ever tells the true ending in a story, cause no story has a happy ending.
She had made lots of friends and did not wish to leave. In her own world there was no love waiting for her. She cried herself to sleep each night until she died from the grief.
Happy endings in books might not turn out to be so happy in reality.
Umeko finished the story with a sad voice
"All in all, the happy ending just wasn't…so happy."
"That was a sad story." Nozomi said quietly and she continued to stare at the sky. The sun had completely disappeared under the horizon and the moon was high in the sky.
"I know." Whispered Umeko. "Not ever story has a happy ending."
Nozomi stayed quiet for a while.
"Hey Umeko."
"Yes?"
"Thanks."
Umeko only smiled.
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So??? How do u like it? Any way Ink World and Ink Spell belong to Cornelia Funke not me I only borrowed them and a few of her characters. Thanks Mrs. Funke its much appreciated.
Any way Read and Review ppl I don't write for my health!